A search of Google News finds only one article about Ex-Gay Lobby Days. The Harvard Crimson reports about Larry Houston, an ex-gay chef who went to D.C. with unnamed ex-gay activists from Massachusetts. “We’re not anti-gay, we’re pro-choice,” Houston said….
Religious Right Protests YWCA
The American Family Association accuses the Young Women’s Christian Association of promoting “homosexual indoctrination” and its new leader of promoting teen-age sex-change operations. Before resorting to poorly substantiated paranoia, AFA gets off to a bad start — calling Patricia Ireland…
Defeat in Baghdad?
From the New York Post via Andrew Sullivan: Having won the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration is throwing the victory away. According to a pro-war correspondent, conditions in Baghdad are far worse than before the war — and getting…
God And George W. Bush
Bill Keller’s essay in today’s New York Times helps to explain Bush’s response to Sen. Santorum — a response called “tepid” by the Family Research Council. I’ve been talking to people who think seriously about religion, including some who know…
Listen, Don’t Lie
Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas repeats his earlier remarks about the ex-gay agenda, in the context of promoting Ex-Gay Lobby Days and an appearance by Exodus executive director Alan Chambers on MSNBC. Instead of listening to what gay people are actually…
Ex-Gay Lobby Days
PFOX’s key points in its press release today, copied below, are representative of the spin that I’ve been seeing lately from the ex-gay umbrella group Exodus. I see little effort by the better-known ex-gay ministries to minister to gays anymore….
Conservative Tammy Bruce on Sen. Santorum
Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas (yes, the ex-gay guy) spoke highly of conservative lesbian author Tammy Bruce. Now Bruce speaks out on Santorum.
A “news brief” from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink today: Boy Scout Funding Pulled The United Way of Miami-Dade County has pulled its yearly grant of $480,000 from the Boy Scouts of South Florida because the Scouts refused to submit…
The Real Gay Agenda
Required reading for aspiring, ex-gay political activists. By Andrew Sullivan.
Marvin Olasky’s Muddle
FRC praised Marvin Olasky’s defense of Sen. Santorum. Olasky says: Good politics, good theology, and good constitutional law go together here. Good politics? Santorum made a highly divisive policy statement having nothing to do with Republican goals in 2004. Gays…